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with great justice I now call it restless desire, for it was so.
When I was at home, I was restless to go abroad ; and when I
was abroad, I was restless tobe at home. I say, what was this
gain tome? I was rich enough already, nor had I any uneasy
desires about getting more money ; and therefore the profit of
the voyage’ to me was of no great force for the prompting me
forward to further undertakings: hence, I thought that by this
voyage I had made no progress at all, because I was come back,
as I might call it, to the place from whence I came, as to a
home ; whereas, my eye, like that which Solomon speaks of,
was never satisfied with seeing. I was come into a part of the
world which I was never in before, and that part, in particular,
whith I had heard much of, and was resolved to see as much
of it as I could: and then I thought I might say I had seen
all the world that was worth seeing.

But my fellow-traveller and I had different notions: I do
not name this to insist on my own, for I acknowledge his were
the most just, and the more suited to the end of a merchant’s
life ; who, when he is abroad upon adventures, is wise to stick
to that, as the best thing for him, which he is likely to get the
most money by. My new friend kept himself to the nature of
the thing, and would have been content to have gone like a
carrier’s horse, always to the same inn, backward and forward,
provided he could, as he called it, find his account in it. On
the other hand, mine was the motion of a mad, rambling boy,
that never cares to see a thing twice over. But this was not
all: I had a kind of impatience upon me to be nearer home,
and yet the most unsettled resolution imaginable which way to
go. In the interval of these consultations, my friend, who was
always upon the search for business, proposed another voyage"
to me among the Spice Islands, and to bring home a loading
of cloves from the Manillas, or thereabouts ; places, indeed,
where the Dutch trade, but islands belonging partly to the
Spaniards ; though we went not so far, but to some other, where
ey have not the whole power, as they have at Batavia, Cey-
on, &c.

We were not long in preparing for this voyage ; the chief
difficulty was in bringing me to come into it: however, at last,
nothing else offeriug, and finding that really stirring about and
trading, the profit being so great, and, as I may say, ceftain, had
more pleasure in it, and had more satisfaction to my mind, than
Sitting still, which, te me especially, was the unhappiest part of
life, I resolved on this voyage too, which we made very suc-
cessfully, touching at Borneo, and several islands whose names

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